volunteerbrownie wrote:FWIW, just watched Mitch Williams on the MLB Network wear out Bauer for Bauer's unwillingness to accept coaching and his poor mechanics.

Now, Mitch was a little stubborn in his day as well, but this trade isn't as much of a homerun as many are making it out to be. IF Bauer is willing to make changes for the better, and that's a BIG IF the more and more I hear about him, he could be a gamechanger. But, there appears to be legitimate questions about make-up and coachability

Eric Wedge something something Brandon Phillips something.

"The fucking Who...... If I want to watch old people run around ill go set fire to a nursing home." - CDT

Dellucci TailGator wrote:So how long before the Reds realize Choo is a butcher in the outfield when it comes to depth perception and taking angles and move him back to right field and have Jay Bruce in center? Mid-June? July?

First week of Spring Training.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

Dellucci TailGator wrote:So how long before the Reds realize Choo is a butcher in the outfield when it comes to depth perception and taking angles and move him back to right field and have Jay Bruce in center? Mid-June? July?

Probably about the time that realize he's a whining vag when he sees any ball further inside than the black of the plate.

Solid player. Solid. That's it. And that's all he was here the past couple years. But someone will greatly overpay for his services. I'm glad it won't be the Indians.

Dellucci TailGator wrote:So how long before the Reds realize Choo is a butcher in the outfield when it comes to depth perception and taking angles and move him back to right field and have Jay Bruce in center? Mid-June? July?

volunteerbrownie wrote:FWIW, just watched Mitch Williams on the MLB Network wear out Bauer for Bauer's unwillingness to accept coaching and his poor mechanics.

Now, Mitch was a little stubborn in his day as well, but this trade isn't as much of a homerun as many are making it out to be. IF Bauer is willing to make changes for the better, and that's a BIG IF the more and more I hear about him, he could be a gamechanger. But, there appears to be legitimate questions about make-up and coachability

Eric Wedge something something Brandon Phillips something.

He'll end up somewhere on the Brandon Phillips/Chris Perez/Milton Bradley continuum.

He asked Dan Brooks of brooksbaseball.net, a site that houses a ton of Pitch F/X data, if he could do a study to see if there's a correlation between slugging percentage against and vertical release point.

Not many 22 year olds caring enough about the craft to wonder about something like that. It's impressive. I really hope it translates into results because anybody who cares that much and studies that much deserves a lot of success.

I'm really glad that the Indians are going to let Trevor be Trevor and see where it takes him and them.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

CAVSTRIBEBROWNSin07! wrote:Not sure if Bauer is a physiologist or a pitcher. To actually know the craft of pitching like he does means we're talking about the next Schilling if he can put it all together.

Liking this kid more and more. Notice he responds in detail to every single comment on that video.